InDesign

Greetings!  I'm using InDesign 20.0.1 on a Windows 11 desktop.  I am intermittently having issues with text disappearing from text frames.  There are no other objects on the page, just one text frame.  The text appears as I type it, but when I deselect the frame the text disappears.  I have checked that the Character and Paragraph Styles are set to None.  Screen mode is Normal, Display Performance is Typical Display.  This happens with "regular" Adobe fonts such as Arial, Minion Pro, Century Gothic, etc (no third-party fonts).  Changing Stroke/Fill doesn't affect this.  Thanx,Jay

20.3   Three of us same issue, clicking between tabs/doc and the programme appears to freeze but will *eventually* goto the other tab.   All on windows 11, this problem did not exist before this version. Also for one team member opening the app the interface is massive, if she minimises the window it then fixes itself.   Would be great if Adobe could fix please.     <Title renamed by MOD>

I publish 6 monthly magazines and have been using InDesign since 2013.Just had the worst three days of production ever... essential part of our business is cut and pasting common topic pages from one magazine to syndicate them in others. I have lost count of the number of times ( I run PC's with Windows 11) I have had to use Task Manager to force shut In Design as simply cutting and pasting hangs the lot.  Found some stuff on the Adobe help site but it keeps referring to SING Components and seems to be for Windows XP and Vista. I am on Version 20.3.1x64. Any ideas?

Hi, my file isnt working, i can open it but then i cannot click on anything it stops and doesn't allow me to even save it on my computer. I have it saved now only as an indesign file. I treid everything chatgpt says and it still doesnt allow me to work in it or even click ones somewhere. What can I do? Thank you very much, really needing help

Hello,I'm working on a book, and I need to find out how many footnotes I have. I hate to go through and count them all manually. Is there a place I can go to see how many footnotes the document has?

I recently upgraded to InDesign 2025 from 2024, Now I am having a glitch with anchored inline objects (icons for products in a catalog).After using Publish Online, all the inline anchored objects have moved to the right by a few milimeters, and now overlap the text they are inline with. The files where orginally created in 2024 InDesign.  The anchored objects are properly placed in the file, the glitch only appears on the uploaded published file.I cannot use text box anchoring. It is not at all practle for my needs. The icons needs to be inline with the product title, and move accordinally if the text changes.In Indesign: Published document: 

I have numbering working in various places throughout my documents, but here it won't work. Why?

Hi everybody, everytime I try to open this indesign file it crashes to desktop. The last message it comes up it says that ID is trying to replace some fonts. I uploaded the crash log and the crashing file.Thanks in advance!

I need the standalone installers for these three applications, but Adobe claims not to have download links anymore (which is a lie), and you can’t get them using CC Desktop App. I want these versions because I know they work; and I don’t want all the bloat that Adobe adds with each new version, or the AI crap they’ve added for 2025. Does anybody have them so that I can download them? I know there are some sites that have a bunch of past versions for both Windows and Mac, but from what I’ve read about people who tried to use those, they all fail because the installer is somehow corrupted. I’d appreciate any help.

Hi everyone,We're running into a consistent issue when exporting a book (.indb) to PDF via script, particularly in InDesign Server workflows. When exporting a book using a script like this: book.exportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, pdfFile, false, preset);Some images inside auto-sized image frames (usually with height or height+width auto-sizing enabled) do not appear in the final PDF. However, if we add the following logic: var doc = app.open(bookContent.fullName, false); doc.recompose(); //This seems to fix it doc.close(SaveOptions.YES);then re export the book, all images appear correctly. what we observed  The frames are visible in InDesign UI, and images appear fine.If I export a chapter directly with indesign UI, PDF is fine.If I export the .indb book without recompose(), images are missing.This happens in both InDesign Desktop and InDesign Server, but especially affects automated flows. So my questions are  Why does book.exportFile()

InDesign export to PNG has a bug. It renders PNG files with horizontal lines where transparency exists. The checkbox for "transparent background" seems to get rid of these lines but not consistently. Also, it doesn't matter if there's truly a transparent background (empty page) or if there's a solid shape in the background. This is not a new issue but has been going on for months if not years. I only recently discovered it was happening and affecting my teams output.   For what it's worth, I'm on Mac OS. Not sure if this issue exists on Windows, too.   <Title renamed by moderator>

I was sure there was an InDesign version of iPad, but it seems that is no longer the case? Has it been removed or do I just need to look harder?

I am trying to display  the IPTC Core metadata field "Job Identifier" in captions on my photographic images - I am using this field as a unique  "Asset Number" for each image. Despite reviewing documentation in a variety of places that says "Job Identifier" is a legit choice, there is no such choice I can see in the Object > Captions > Caption Setup dropdown for the Metadata field. Everything I don't care about is there, "Job Identifier" is not. Maybe I am missing some step? Or maybe the documentation is wrong? I hate the idea of going through several hundred images and stuffing some unrelated metadata field that inDesign would allow with the information just to work around this. Any suggestions before I start pulling my hair out.

Tengo un archivo de InDesign en Creative Cloud que ya no lo puedo abrirEl archivo había alcanzado a generar el archivo PDF para revisión colaborativa, ese si lo puedo verPero cada vez que abro el archivo, el programa se cierra automáticamente cuando lo abro en un PC con Windows y cuando lo abro desde un Mac aparece el mensaje "Error: Se ha detectado un error grave y adobe InDesign se cerrará. Reinicie InDesign para recuperar el trabajo que no se haya guardado en cualquiera de los documentos."Ya he probado las siguientes opciones y no ha servido (con ayuda del servicio técnico por el chat):Copiar el archivoDesinstalar InDesign 2025 y probar con la versión 2024.Desinstalar InDesign 2025 y volverlo a instalar (en el servicio técnico me envió un link)Descargar el archivo en cuestión desde Creative Cloud, pero siempre arroja un error que no se pudo descargar.Cerrar las sesiones iniciadas en otros equipos.Puedo abrir todos los archivos sin problema, pero al parecer solo este está dañado

Hi everyone, I'm using InDesign 2024 and running into an issue where some fonts aren't embedding properly when I export to PDF. I've checked my export settings, and "Subset fonts" is unchecked. The fonts are licensed and installed on my system, but they still show up as missing or get replaced in the PDF. Has anyone experienced this or found a reliable fix? Any help would be appreciated!    

I'm trying to scale text in indesign using cmd+shift, and it's not working. And it won't let me proportionately scale anything in indesign holding shift etc- it just gets distorted. When I try to duplicate using option+cmd+shift, that doesn't work either. I've tried EVERYTHING- checked my preferences, reset preferences, uninstalled, reinstalled, please help. Please advise. 

Why doesn't it show up and change to this font when I try to select it?? 

I'm having a struggle with InDesign 20.31 (and earlier versions of 20). I have a document that is 66 picas by 102 picas. The margins are 1p6 on all sides with single page spreads. If I option drag a page, copy a page or drag a page down from a parent page, the guides move and the text frames change size. Everything moves down and to the right. The first time the top and left margins change from 1p6 to 1p4.2. If I option drag it again, it moves from 1p4.2 to 1p2.8. If I set up columns when I set up the margins on a parent page, the colums don't move, but the guides and frames do.Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon? For what I need InDesign to do for this project, this is a severe problem and it has made me question all of the other parent pages I have created with guides.Thanks for any help!

In my studio one of my colleges is having trouble exporting a piece of artwork using PASS4PRESS, exports fine an interactive but when it come sto print it never gets passed 18% both of PASS4PRESS and Quality presets. But the strangest thing is that when we try it on other computers in the studio it works fine.  As it works fine on other computers it isn't a links issue. only difference is the computer with the issue is an intel core i7 and the others are intel core i9. There is plenty of memore and RAM on the i7 too so that can't be the problem, plus all update are all installed too. Anyone with any ides why this happens?

Hello there, i am having some troubles with a document i need to convert to pdf. I have added an image after which Indesign crashed for the first time prompting an error message ressembling something like " not enough disk storage " and automatically closed the document. Luckily i have Adobe cloud and the document saved automatically but ever since this crash, the document crashes everytime i try to open it. No error message whatsoever, i can see the document for a split second and then it just closes the tab. i've tried everything : Uninstalling indesign, clearing preferences, saving locally and even saving to IDML which InDesign can't read for some reason but i know my file is deeply corrupted. is there anyone that could take a look at it or help me with other solutions available. Thanks for reading all that !If there is a way to recover any of the work i've put in here Let me know.     <Title renamed by MOD>

Regular test tool RegexBuddy4 surprisingly does not support kanji ~K?Using coded representations is a bit uncomfortable and not easy to remember.

What is the proper way to set up saddle-stitched booklet layout with separated cover?I am going to create a booklet as shown above. It's going to be saddle stitched. And the cover and the inside pages are going to be different stock.My current method is to have two separate files for cover and inside pages so I can easily output two files for printing. But the client also wants a "soft" pdf proof with all pages in correct order(so the cover file will be split into front cover and back cover and be placed at both end of the inside pages).Is there a proper way to set up file for this kind of jobs?

Hello, I'm trying to get rid of the margins on pages/slides, so that they look like the first attachment (No_border) and not like the second (Border). Any ideas? While I'm at it, how can I define document-wide setups once I find the one I like (margins, borders, etc.)? Thanks!  

We’ve encountered a technical issue involving InDesign 20.3.1  and the macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 Font Book, and we would appreciate your help in identifying the source of the problem.The issue is as follows:When we install our variable fonts using Font Book (macOS), they do not appear in Adobe InDesign.However, if we manually place the same font files directly into InDesign’s Fonts folder, the fonts load correctly and are fully functional.From our side, we are trying to determine whether this issue stems from a compatibility problem between Adobe InDesign and macOS, or if it’s a known limitation or bug affecting how variable fonts are recognized across these systems.This is becoming increasingly important, as some of our clients may encounter similar issues, and we’d like to be prepared with a clear explanation—or solution—to share with them.Could you please advise us on whether this is a known issue? And if so, whether there are any planned updates or workarounds you recommend?Thank y

Is it only [a-ln-oq-z]?It seems unscientific and too much of a hassle.